Posted in Gardening, travel, tagged cherry blossoms, cleaning up the rink at the end of the season, getting away, public art, spring, travel, Washington DC on 19 March, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The weather has suddenly gotten the calendar memo — people were thawing so fast that sublimation and perhaps unwise clothing selections were visible all over Washington DC yesterday. No I was not in town to chain myself to a fence or lobby the Pharma folks…
Behold, the annual Squeegee Festival near the National Mall:
Watch the cavorting of outdated office supplies in the bold light of (almost) Spring:
Oh, and some people might be coming into town to gawk at the cherry blossoms….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blizzard of 2010, ice, icicles, snowlight on 8 March, 2010| 1 Comment »
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, tagged bad writing, fifth of bourbon, half-assed, quarter horses, Where was the editor? on 7 March, 2010| 1 Comment »
“She also found herself grieving the death of a quarter horse, whose movements were remarkably natural.”
…as opposed to all those quarter horses with unnatural gaits? Isn’t the action of a quarter horse one of the main features of the animal? And the less a reader knew about horses, the stranger the sentence would get…
[sigh] See the original article here
Rethorykal Questions 